μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Heaven and earth from egg. They are the two halves of an egg shell. Eros escapes as they are separated.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Creation of the universe. · Other means of creating the universe. · view the constellation · filed as A641.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • GreekFox 5. – Indonesian: L. d. Backer L'Archipel indien 232.
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Filed under Cosmic egg. The universe brought forth from an egg.

Filed beside it
Creation from duck's eggs. Upper vault from half shell, lower vault from half shell, moonbeams from whites, sunshine from yellows, starlight from motley parts, clouds from dark parts

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